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Today in History 01/17/17

(1893) Hawaiian monarchy overthrown American sugar planter Sanford Dole and other anti-monarchists, mostly US citizens, overthrow Queen Lili’uokalani, creating a republic, with Dole as its president. The United States will annex the republic five years later, and it will become the 50th US state in 1959.The overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii began with the coup d’état of January 17, 1893 on the island of Oahu, leading to the end of the hereditary monarchs, largely at the hands of the United States citizens within the kingdom government under Queen Lili’uokalani and backed by an invasion of U.S. Marines under John L. Stevens. Hawaii was initially reconstituted as an independent republic, but the ultimate goal of the revolutionaries was the annexation of the islands to the United States, which was finally accomplished in 1898.

Date: Jan 17, 1893

wiki/Overthrow_of_the_Kingdom_of_Hawaii(1950) Great Brinks Robbery nets $2.7 millionEleven men make a record-breaking robbery at Boston’s Brinks Armored Car Depot. Their plan to wait six years before collecting the hidden money will be foiled days before the statute of limitations ends.The Great Brink’s Robbery was an armed robbery of the Brink’s Building at the east corner of Prince St. and Commercial St. in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on January 17, 1950. Today the building is a parking garage located at 600 Commercial Street.

Date: Jan 17, 1950

wiki/Great_Brink’s_Robbery(1966) Military planes collide and drop nuclear bombsFour 70-kiloton nuclear bombs fall to earth and sea around the remote town of Palomares after a B-52 bomber and a Stratotanker refueling aircraft collide over Spain.The 1966 Palomares B-52 crash, or the Palomares incident, occurred on 17 January 1966, when a B-52G bomber of the United States Air Force’s Strategic Air Command collided with a KC-135 tanker during mid-air refuelling at 31,000 feet over the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Spain. The KC-135 was completely destroyed when its fuel load ignited, killing all four crew members. The B-52G broke apart, killing three of the seven crew members aboard.wiki/1966_Palomares_B-52_crash(1991) Operation Desert Storm beginsBroadcast on live television, bombing missions over Iraq’s capital of Baghdad mark the start of combat operations in the Persian Gulf War, as US-led coalition forces fight to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi control.The Gulf War, codenamed Operation Desert Shield for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia and Operation Desert Storm in its combat phase, was a war waged by coalition forces from 34 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq’s invasion and annexation of Kuwait.

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